Our Patron
Johnny Timpson OBE

A financial inclusion, and resilience champion, Johnny Timpson OBE has extensive insurance and banking sector senior leadership plus academic, professional and trade body experience. He is the principal of Johnny Timpson Consulting and Non-Executive Chair of both specialist military insurance brokerage Absolute Military and cross sector vulnerability tech Morgan Ash. A Financial Inclusion Commissioner, Johnny additionally Chairs the Building Resilient Households Group and is a member of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, the BIBA Access To Insurance Committee, the National Independent Consumer Organisation Financial Protection Panel and Hargreaves Lansdown Savings & Resilience Barometer Sounding Board..

 

Johnny sits on the Insurance Institute of London DE&I Committee and has ambassador roles with the Surviving Economic Abuse Charity, the Women In Protection Network and Age Irrelevance. A Trustee of the Caudwell Children’s disability charity, he also holds advisory roles with the Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK,  the Protection Distributors Group and Income Protection Taskforce.

 

A founding and current board member of GAIN ( the Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity), Johnny is a former DWP and Cabinet Office Disability Access Ambassador and member of the Prime Ministers Champion Group for Dementia Communities where he worked with the Internation Longevity Centre “Living Well With Dementia” project, he also held advisory roles with the University of Edinburgh Business School “ Supporting Health Ageing at Work (SHAW) programme and University of Bristol “Financial Wellbeing Of Disabled People In The UK” project.

 

Johnny was awarded with an OBE in the Queens New Years Honours 2022 for voluntary services to people with disabilities and financial services, he is a longstanding Friend of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association and in various roles advocates the importance of rehabilitation together with embracing prevention, healthy ageing at work in relation to all dimensions of health and the social model of disability. In addition, having lived experience of disability, improving access to adjustments together with access to work support.